COVID-19 Contact Tracers or Cootie Cops?
Tracing where people have been and who they’ve met can be effective for battling disease. But, oh boy, does it lend itself to abuse.
Tracing where people have been and who they’ve met can be effective for battling disease. But, oh boy, does it lend itself to abuse.
A seemingly arcane dispute about administrative law has profound implications for the limits of public health authority.
An effort by Sen. Rand Paul to forbid warrantless investigation of citizens was soundly defeated.
Too often, minor drug crimes turn into mandatory minimum offenses with lengthy sentences despite the fact these types of cases rarely involve drug dealing to minors.
The amendment lost by one vote. Absent from today's vote? Sen. Bernie Sanders.
of dissecting each of the sixteen bullet points illustrates the deficiency of plaintiffs’ complaint."
This week the justices are considering 13 petitions involving the pernicious doctrine of qualified immunity.
An Illinois resident obtained a TRO by citing a 30-day limit, while a New Hampshire hair salon owner says the goal of her state's lockdown has been achieved.
An amendment to a FISA renewal bill would let the FBI snoop on your online browser history.
Privacy activists say we should be alarmed by the rise of automated facial recognition surveillance. Transhumanist Zoltan Istvan says it's time to embrace the end of privacy as we know it.
A Reuters report suggests changes in qualified immunity doctrine have immunized police officers sued for misconduct.
Forcing Google to behave like a public utility would probably not serve the interests of those demanding that designation—or the rest of us.
The Supreme Court will consider the constitutionality of a Louisiana law that requires physicians who perform abortions to have admitting privileges at local hospitals.
We've seen this before...
A Reuters investigation reveals courts "growing tendency" to grant cops immunity from civil rights lawsuits.
The tradeoffs among considerations of health, prosperity, and liberty are catching up with us even if we don't want to acknowledge them.
An important decision from the Massachusetts high court.
The USA Freedom Act expired in March. Some senators are pushing for better privacy protections before the renewal vote.
The anti-prostitution pledge is unconstitutional when applied to U.S. nonprofits. But the feds say it's still OK to compel speech from these groups' foreign affiliates.
Plus: Homeland Security has detained thousands of pregnant women, Ginsburg wrong about "seamless" contraception coverage, and more...
Forcibly collecting DNA samples from immigrants in detention is yet another horrifying form of mass surveillance
Considering Stormtroopers aren't known for their aim, the police had nothing to fear.
Stanford researcher Tina White and the new nonprofit Covid Watch are committed to protecting both individual rights and public health.
Mark Zuckerberg can't please the anti-tech populists on the left and the right, no matter what he does.
Not everything that states do in the name of protecting public health is consistent with the Constitution.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s unilateral order confirms suspicions that government is always on the verge of abusing its power.
The 1961 speech by President Dwight Eisenhower foreshadowed the current government's response to COVID-19.
Josh Duggar had sued over the government's releasing records of his juvenile investigation.
Courts so far have not been inclined to ask that question.
Plus: Family Dollar guard murdered over mask enforcement, doctors see "multisystem inflammatory syndrome" in kids with COVID-19, and more...
So holds a federal district court.
An important First Amendment holding in a factually fascinating case, which involves an alleged breach of contract, a World War II Medal of Honor, a dispute over a history book, and a discussion of anti-libel injunctions.
Apple and Google's Bluetooth-based app would reportedly be voluntary and anonymous. Privacy advocates say we should accept nothing less.
Like all of us, law enforcement will face a world of reduced public interactions, devastated economies, and changed ways of life.
But other courts in the Ninth Circuit have categorically said that such injunctions are unconstitutional—the law remains quite unclear.
Plus: Court rules against Kentucky's ban on drive-in church services, FDA authorizes remdesivir for COVID-19 treatment, and more...
Early takeaways from the country's response to a pandemic
Not a great thing to see in an appellate opinion, if you claimed that reviewing a court order shows that you should win.
A state trooper believed a man driving by and flipping the bird at the cops constituted disorderly conduct. (It didn't.)
Such bans have already proven to be essentially valueless for crime-fighting.
Around the world, governments are taking advantage of COVID-19 to tighten the screws on their subjects.
"Even the most dedicated patent lawyer would have difficulty mustering 'hatred' for a computer user who inadvertently violated a patent."
We've filed a friend-of-the-court brief asking the Tennessee Supreme Court to review the case.